Consider these reactions to Trump’s recent “State of the Union” address. Ms. Metz, the nursing student from Arizona, and Mr. Ciampi, the retiree from Arizona, are particularly remarkable. They know nothing, so can be told anything. Or as Ezra Pound used to say (before he went crazy), “You cannot talk to the ignorant about lies, since they have no criteria.”)
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Cambridge makes new volumes in its Elements series freely available for a couple of weeks following publication. My own “Innateness…
Matthew Ratcliffe. 2023. Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience. MIT Press (open access with no time limit) https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5524/Grief-WorldsA-Study-of-Emotional-Experience “Experiences…
Free Robot Labour: Marx, Automation, and the Future of AI by Jamie Terence Kelly https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-26782-5 Palgrave Macmillan, 2026 Permanently Open…
Nietzsche’s Ecce homo, Notebooks and Letters: 1888-1889. Translation by Daniel Fidel Ferrer. ©2023 Daniel Fidel Ferrer. All rights reserved. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs…
I only just learned of Barry’s passing, and I’m enormously saddened at the news. I wrote my PhD on his…
I am reading 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 with mixed feelings. It is, in various ways, moderate and careful, and it certainly…
There will be many, many human tragedies to result from this senseless decision by our senior management. But what a…